Online Educational Games and Interactive Teaching Tools

http://sheppardsoftware.com
SheppardSoftware.com – Hundreds of educational games, activities, quizzes – free. Activities for grades K-12. The site lists their 10 most popular games. Ex: The fourth most popular game is Food Chain Game.

http://www.thinkquest.org/library – Click on ThinkQuest: Library, choose a category, Ex: History and Government, United States, Missouri River Quest, Quizzes. Answer the questions, receive a score and the correct answers.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/tools – Click on content areas. Ex: Ben’s Guide, grades K-12 games and activities, Interactive, “Place The States.”


www.quia.com - (Key-ah) – Offers templates for creating 16 types of online activities (Ex: flashcards, word searches, and battleship), create quizzes, access to over 3 million online activities and more.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/histmyst - Student activities, U.S. History or World History. Ex: Roaring 20’s, read a clue, “do some research to uncover the History Mystery subject.

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Wisconsin Public Television has launched a brand new interactive Website for children at wpt.org/kids. I have not been able to access it – thought you may like to try.